Impact

To mark International Women’s Day (IWD), the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is supporting this year’s United Nations Observance of IWD, DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality, through a United...

As part of a joint capacity building initiative between the Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme and the Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) a training event was held from 13–17...

Urbanization provides a unique opportunity to accelerate economic and social development across Africa. South Africa has some of the technical capabilities to support the process through systematic planning, institution building and investment in essential infrastructure...

Regional integration in Africa is underway but progress requires that the gains are widely spread. South Africa’s huge regional trade surplus in manufactured goods is leading to protectionist pressures in neighbouring countries. Agro-processing is a...

27 January 2023, 11:00-13:15 (UTC+2) Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town Private, School of Economics, 4th floor, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7701, South Africa On 27 January 2023, a launch of a new book synthesizing...

Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has lauded the impact of SA-TIED Phase I in supporting evidence-based policy-making to help South Africa (SA) address some of its most pressing economic problems. He cited the example of...

The launch of SA-TIED Phase II was a major success, garnering widespread media attention. Bongani Bingwa, the host of Breakfast 702, interviewed Antony Phillipson, High Commissioner of the UK to South Africa, ahead of yesterday’s...

The Employment Tax Incentive was introduced in 2014 in response to South Africa’s chronic structural youth unemployment crisis. Its aim was to encourage employers to hire young people by subsidizing their wages. ‘High youth unemployment,’...